Making choral "practice tapes"
Well, not tapes, of course, but I don't know how to say a recording of a choral work with the user's part loud and the rest very quiet. I understand I can do this using the mixer, but I wonder if there is any sort of "quick solution" which automatically makes four tracks, for each of SATB in turn?
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Right click on a note (e.g. Alto), select->All Similar Elements;
Open Inspector, set the Velocity.
HTH
@Imaginatorium
![CreatePracticePartsDialog.png]( "CreatePracticePartsDialog.png")
I agree with you, because it is indeed tedious to create four separate files with the volume emphasized for S A T B in turn. This process could surely be automated, with a small popup window to set the relative volumes of emphasized voice, unemphasized voices and piano/organ accompaniment? Like this mockup:
This would of course need a Feature Request, and then we would have to wait until a developer picks up the idea. But there must be plenty of MuseScore users who would enjoy the ability to create at the click of a button the four SATB practice scores for their choir?
In reply to @Imaginatorium I agree with… by DanielR
Did anything ever come of this? I can't see how the referenced plugin works, but I do like the mock-up here. It doesn't need to be complicated, just saves a lot of tedious work with the mixer and saving multiple versions manually.
I'm currently transcribing a piece with seven voices, so even more reason to wish such a feature existed.
In reply to Did anything ever come of… by dccarson
"Did anything ever come of this?"
I don't think so, because the other thread about the plugin doesn't have any newer comments.
If you are really keen to see this implemented, it would be worth setting up a formal Suggestion (i.e. a Feature Request) in the Issue Tracker:
https://musescore.org/en/project/issues/musescore
Someone started a very basic plugin to try to automate this. See https://musescore.org/en/node/277716#comment-863605
In reply to Someone started a very basic… by jeetee
@jeetee
Many thanks, now cross-referenced on the plugin page.
In reply to Someone started a very basic… by jeetee
I've been the author of that very basic plugin, but I've skipped it quite some time ago due to limitations of the plugin framework,
Instead I wrote a small PHP script that can be run on the command line, that generates mp3 exports in different flavors (default is current voice emphasized, other voices muted). For more details see the GitHub page I've created for it: https://github.com/moving-bits/msexport